{"product_id":"voices-of-the-enslaved-love-labor-and-longing-in-french-louisiana-paperback-softback-9781469666266","title":"Voices of the Enslaved; Love, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana (Paperback \/ softback) 9781469666266","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eVoices of the Enslaved\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eLove, Labor, and Longing in French Louisiana\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSophie White (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781469666266\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 1 August 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e352 pages, 40 colour plates, 40 halftones, 2 tables\u003cbr\u003e23.3 x 19.8 x 2 cm, 0.515 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eVoices of the Enslaved\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable achievement of historical interpretation from fragmentary documents, even sources as comparably rich as court transcripts, and is an impressive contribution to scholarship on the African diaspora in the French Atlantic.\" - \u003ci\u003eH-Net Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Through meticulously recorded and preserved legal testimony derived from criminal trials in 18th-century New Orleans, White details how slaves perceived their own cultural reality as well as that of the ruling masters. The stories provided offer insight into their morals, societal values, and views on labor, violence, and familial bonds. The author intersperses her narrative with records in French and includes multiple paintings, samples of documented testimony, maps, and architectural sketches that help bring these figures and their plight to life. . . . Graduate students and professionals will find it uniquely enlightening.\" - \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A compelling and insightful chronicle of the lives of individual enslaved men and women in French colonial Louisiana.\" - \u003ci\u003eJournal of Southern History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn eighteenth-century New Orleans, the legal testimony of some 150 enslaved women and men--like the testimony of free colonists--was meticulously recorded and preserved. Questioned in criminal trials as defendants, victims, and witnesses about attacks, murders, robberies, and escapes, they answered with stories about themselves, stories that rebutted the premise on which slavery was founded.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFocusing on four especially dramatic court cases, \u003ci\u003eVoices of the Enslaved\u003c\/i\u003e draws us into Louisiana's courtrooms, prisons, courtyards, plantations, bayous, and convents to understand how the enslaved viewed and experienced their worlds. As they testified, these individuals charted their movement between West African, indigenous, and colonial cultures; they pronounced their moral and religious values; and they registered their responses to labor, to violence, and, above all, to the intimate romantic and familial bonds they sought to create and protect. Their words--punctuated by the cadences of Creole and rich with metaphor--produced riveting autobiographical narratives as they veered from the questions posed by interrogators.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCarefully assessing what we can discover, what we might guess, and what has been lost forever, Sophie White offers both a richly textured account of slavery in French Louisiana and a powerful meditation on the limits and possibilities of the archive.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52734616797464,"sku":"9781469666266","price":30.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/voices-of-the-enslaved-love-labor-and-longing-in-french-louisiana-paperback-softback-9781469666266","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}